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Contact

Language Skills

Main

Alexandre Henrique S. Dias

I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people1, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times2, and built packages for R3 that let you do magic4.

Industry Experience

BI Developer

Looqbox

São Paulo, SP

Present - 2019

  • Work primarily done in R, Python, and SQL to develop graphics visualizations.
  • I’m a contributor of the Looqbox R Package used to build R objects and data structures for the Looqbox Application.

Education

MITx Micromaster Program in Statistics and Data Science

MITx on edX

N/A

Present - 2020

  • The program covers the fundamentals of data science, statistics, and machine learning.

B.S., Computer Engineering

Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte - UFRN

Natal, RN

2019 - 2018

  • Member of the Modeling and Scientific Data Analysis team.

B.S., Sciences & Technology

Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte

Natal, RN

2017 - 2015

  • Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry assistant teacher.
  • Calculus II assistant teacher.

Research Experience

Undergraduate Researcher

Digital Metropolis Institute

UFRN

2019 - 2018

  • Developed a traffic monitoring system using image recognition.

Undergraduate Researcher

Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics

UFRN

2017 - 2016

  • Developed an interactive theorem prover based on Linear Logical using the Maude programming language.


Selected Data Science Writing

I am most interested in readings about data science, statistics, and AI.

Clustering with K-means: simple yet powerful5

Medium

N/A

Mar. 2019

  • Explain what is Cluster Analysis, and how the K-means algorithm work providing its pros and cons.

An introduction to Linear Regression6

Medium

N/A

Mar. 2019

  • Explain all assumptions behind Linear Regression models, how to measure their performance, and how to implement a model in Python.

Academic Publications

Paper published in the 2019 II Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (MetroInd4.0&IoT). Naples, Italy.

Performance Evaluation of an Edge OBD-II Device for Industry 4.07

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE

N/A

Jun. 2019

  • Authored with Ivanovitch Silva, Paolo Ferrari, Diego Silva, Marianne Silva, and Gabriel Signoretti.

Certificates & Courses

DataCamp completed tracks

DataCamp

N/A

2019 - 2018

  • Data Scientist with Python.
  • Data Analyst with Python.
  • Data Manipulation with Python.
  • Machine Learning with Python.
  • Importing & Cleaning Data with Python.
  • Python Programming.
  • Python Programmer.

Talks

Understand what is Data Science and how this field is going to color the 21st Century (translated)

Arduino Day 2019: A worldwide celebration of Arduino

UFRN

Mar. 2019

  • Invited talk about what is data science and what it takes to become a data scientist.

Predicting Pulsar Stars: How Data Science helps us understand the universe (translated)

II seminar on Data Science Applications

UFRN

Dec. 2018

  • Talk about the importance of detecting Pulsar Stars, and how we can implement a simple neural network to beat XGBoost.